James Clapper rips House Intel’s credibility while defending 2017 assessment on Russia meddling

Published March 15, 2018 3:47am ET



James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, shared some choice words about the “credibility” of the House Intelligence Committee after it released findings from its upcoming report on its year-long Russia investigation, some of which contradicted a January 2017 U.S. intelligence community report.

“The credibility of the committee is basically about zero,” Clapper told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, adding, “because they are so partisan.”

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